Are the Bills mentally weak?

Summary of 3 articles · Updated Oct 2, 2012

Are the Bills a mentally weak team? There aren't many other ways to explain giving up 35 unanswered points at home. According to Gailey, the Bills are not a mentally tough team. And if we're mentally tough like we need to be, that game doesn't end up the … (more)way it ended," Gailey said, according to the Associated Press . Gailey said that he was upset about the way his defense got pushed around by the Patriots and the sloppiness of his offense, and the coach thinks that his team needs to get tougher mentally if they are going to be better physically. The Bills can’t use that as an excuse for poor play, especially since two straight losses would make all that preseason hype seem like an even more distant memory. Buffalo Bills coach Chan Gailey questioned his players' mental toughness on Monday, a day after the team's embarrassing and near-historic second-half collapse against the New England Patriots. Placing the blame on everyone, including himself, Gailey called it his responsibility to address how Buffalo squandered a 14-point lead, by allowing the Patriots to score 45 second-half points in rallying to a 52-28 win.

Chan Gailey says Bills need to be mentally tougher

Before the season started, Bills General Manager Buddy Nix responded to growing hype around his team by saying that it was time for the Bills to “step it up.” Coach Chan Gailey is sending a similar message in the wake of the team’s total meltdown fr